Learn the alchemy true human beings
know: the moment you accept what

troubles you've been given, the door
will open. Welcome difficulty

as a familiar comrade. Joke with
torment brought by the Friend.

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes
and jackets that serve to cover,

then are taken off. That undressing
and the naked body underneath, is

the sweetness that comes after grief.

Jelaluddin Rumi, The Glance by Coleman Barks